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[applause] >> thank you so much and good morning, everyone, and welcome, steve. it's really, really a pleasure to have you here in this morning, and we're going to dive right in. i want to begin, first, by giving you credit for speaking to the world affairs could coun. i believe it wasn't only last year, but the year before when steve hadley challenged all of us to come up with a focus, a set of issues, in fact, that the councils across the united states should be honing in on. well, as you know, this year's conference is galvanized around a set of issues, u.s. national security, six topic issues for the president in 2013. and let me just recap those for you, because we want to drill down in these. the councils have selected u.s. economic competitiveness, u.s. education competing globally, the middle east, china, afghanistan/pakistan and u.s. energy policy as the six top issues. so starting with that, looking at it strategically, do you feel that those are the core issues before president obama and this administration and our country going into 2013? um, if not,
[applause] >> thank you so much and good morning, everyone, and welcome, steve. it's really, really a pleasure to have you here in this morning, and we're going to dive right in. i want to begin, first, by giving you credit for speaking to the world affairs could coun. i believe it wasn't only last year, but the year before when steve hadley challenged all of us to come up with a focus, a set of issues, in fact, that the councils across the united states should be honing in on. well, as...
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those two ridings are not reasonable alternatives that steve has said remaining engaged with pakistan there is an alternative to it. but i would argue that having a focus simply on the bilateral relationship is something that has been a problem for us and what we need to do is break out of this if you will the sterile debate and look at the issues that are crosscutting with pakistan's relationship to india and that have to do with a sequence of events that will take place after 2014 when the american focus once again as steve mentioned when the american focus becomes somewhat less the relationship through the counterterrorism and opens the door for the more creative ways of business, academic, a media that have really suffered in the last ten years. so i guess i come out to your question answering that i'm cautiously optimistic if we can keep things on the rail which you know what will happen over the last ten years isn't an easy thing and it's like rolling down the side do would be and you don't know how for the region goes so keeping things on track it isn't easy to keep things on t
those two ridings are not reasonable alternatives that steve has said remaining engaged with pakistan there is an alternative to it. but i would argue that having a focus simply on the bilateral relationship is something that has been a problem for us and what we need to do is break out of this if you will the sterile debate and look at the issues that are crosscutting with pakistan's relationship to india and that have to do with a sequence of events that will take place after 2014 when the...
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[laughter] i felt bad for steve. i like steve. i chased after him just to make sure he knew no hard feelings. every time i see steve in the hall now, i say hi, steve, so he knows there's no hard feelings. only recently did it occur to me that his name's probably not steve. [laughter] you know, when i started this year, 2012, i was looking forward to two things. two steps that i believed would help us fundamentally thans form the government into that kind of government or closely resembling that government that our founding fathers envisioned for us. one of the events i knew would occur likely in june, probably towards the end of june, probably the last thursday in june which i quickly identified as june 28th. i was right. the other date that i recognized as potentially transformative of the government, the other date that i recognized that i thought would probably have a positive impact on the development of our constitutional system of government was november 6th. i would just like to say at the outset that i want to thank chief
[laughter] i felt bad for steve. i like steve. i chased after him just to make sure he knew no hard feelings. every time i see steve in the hall now, i say hi, steve, so he knows there's no hard feelings. only recently did it occur to me that his name's probably not steve. [laughter] you know, when i started this year, 2012, i was looking forward to two things. two steps that i believed would help us fundamentally thans form the government into that kind of government or closely resembling that...
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and you're going to the frustration and people like steve. you have a president and you that we're working on immigration reform in congress. they're trying to get people like marco rubio, like myself. he decided by executive order to do something they had no authority to do. and he decided to do something like that, and instead of advancing the ball on immigration, what he did is he poisoned the well so we wouldn't be willing to work on immigration reform. if you think about it, the only reason we didn't have immigration reform during the bush administration is because two gentlemen, rahm emanuel in the house and barack obama in the senate decided to vote for an amendment to the immigration bills that actually help the union. they were backed by the unions, and they decided that they would poison the well by voting for those amendments that killed immigration reform. nobody talks about that in the immediate, but it was liberal labor unions and those barack obama in the senate who decided to poison the well. he did it again this time, and i t
and you're going to the frustration and people like steve. you have a president and you that we're working on immigration reform in congress. they're trying to get people like marco rubio, like myself. he decided by executive order to do something they had no authority to do. and he decided to do something like that, and instead of advancing the ball on immigration, what he did is he poisoned the well so we wouldn't be willing to work on immigration reform. if you think about it, the only...
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okay, steve. slingbox >> notwithstanding everything i said before -- [laughter] i'm actually optimistic. i'm optimistic because heidi ticked off a number of these before in a slightly different context. we have the most flexible economy in the world. we have this incredibly diverse labor force and a diverse group of people in this country that come here because the opportunity. there aren't that many people that leave america to go all these other places that we worry about being more competitive than we are the there's a long line of people that still want to come here. immigration is a big issue in this campaign, and i am in new york which has an enormous immigrant population, and i can't even imagine what the city would be like without it in terms of the vibrancy and the excitement that we feel when we walk the streets of new york. so, you know, we have a long history of finding our way through these kinds of challenges and problems. and i believe that as long as we -- as long as we stick to ou
okay, steve. slingbox >> notwithstanding everything i said before -- [laughter] i'm actually optimistic. i'm optimistic because heidi ticked off a number of these before in a slightly different context. we have the most flexible economy in the world. we have this incredibly diverse labor force and a diverse group of people in this country that come here because the opportunity. there aren't that many people that leave america to go all these other places that we worry about being more...
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i was looking for an adjective that captured this gentleman and i came up with this one, electric, steve clemens who is with the atlantic now and has been a great source here. of course the newseum shelby coffey who's been a key architect of this event. this year we are doing something different. we welcome a new partnership in the harvard institute of politics who've carried of the elections in side of the program track and so i would like to extend a sincere thanks to the director of the harvard institute of politics. and now i would like to thank our important presenting underwriters have made this event possible, and they are altria, bank of america, comcast, exxonmobil, thompson reuters and united technologies and the supporting underwriters of the american federation of teachers and the center for auto quality, and then for drinks tonight well-deserved drinks at the reception, the underwriter is google. finally if you're housekeeping notes. we are going to run the program straight through without breaks so you can infer what that means. please, silence your cell phone and this is j
i was looking for an adjective that captured this gentleman and i came up with this one, electric, steve clemens who is with the atlantic now and has been a great source here. of course the newseum shelby coffey who's been a key architect of this event. this year we are doing something different. we welcome a new partnership in the harvard institute of politics who've carried of the elections in side of the program track and so i would like to extend a sincere thanks to the director of the...
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one of steve jobs last big speeches was actually just about that point. but that gets less attention than the focus of say the gates foundation which was very much on training people for jobs, so there's a very strong poll i think right now in american local society against the trend is that -- against the ideas being talked about here. >> what me comment on that for a moment because i think for the month them to get traction you have to be sensitive to the realities so for example when we put the title on the national academy study of the future of the research university while we followed along with the idea that prosperity was important, i added, insisted on adding the words prosperity and security and the reason for that is we have a congress right now this certainly gives lip service to jobs, but they give money to security. if you look at states right now the simplistic approach is to say we are going to spin off companies and create the next google and so on and so forth. we have been making that argument for a long time and i think it is beginning
one of steve jobs last big speeches was actually just about that point. but that gets less attention than the focus of say the gates foundation which was very much on training people for jobs, so there's a very strong poll i think right now in american local society against the trend is that -- against the ideas being talked about here. >> what me comment on that for a moment because i think for the month them to get traction you have to be sensitive to the realities so for example when...
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house democratic leader nancy pelosi joins steve israel to introduce a new house democrat, new house democrats who were elected this month. these members will take office in january, and c-span is scheduled to cover this briefing live at 2 eastern right after the house gavels out. >> c-span invites middle and high school students to send a message to the president through a short video. let president obama know what's the most important issue he should consider in 2013 for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. c-span's student cam video competition is open to students grades 6-12, and the deadline is january 18, 2013. go online to studentcam.org. >> what i like about c pan's coverage is -- c-span's coverage is it's in depth. often times you'll cover an event from start to finish, and i can get the information that i need. i like to watch "the communicators," i like to watch congressional hearings. the events that you do at the national press club where there are policy leaders speaking, i find those useful. >> howard woolley watches c-span on verizon. c-span, created by america'
house democratic leader nancy pelosi joins steve israel to introduce a new house democrat, new house democrats who were elected this month. these members will take office in january, and c-span is scheduled to cover this briefing live at 2 eastern right after the house gavels out. >> c-span invites middle and high school students to send a message to the president through a short video. let president obama know what's the most important issue he should consider in 2013 for a chance to win...